{"id":756,"date":"2015-07-03T10:29:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T17:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=756"},"modified":"2015-07-03T10:29:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T17:29:46","slug":"some-new-revolutionary-war-era-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"Some New Revolutionary War-era Ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/070315_1729_SomeNewRevo11.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>As we approach Independence Day, Revolutionary War ancestors come to the minds of genealogists. I am no exception, and I have a few:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gershom Hall of Massachusetts\n<\/li>\n<li>John Day of Virginia\n<\/li>\n<li>Robert Kirkham from what is now Kentucky\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also knew that I likely have a Carter ancestor who served. Genealogists have disagreed on the parentage of my known Carter (John Carter, 1790-1841), but his grandfather was perhaps Levi Carter, a Revolutionary War veteran from Greene County, Tennessee. Investigating this family has been on my to-do list.\n<\/p>\n<p>When my dad&#8217;s cousin passed away recently and I acquired her genealogy books, I found a history of the Greene County Carters by John Denton Carter. To my amazement, I learned that nine Carter men served in the Revolution. Wow!\n<\/p>\n<p>Of course not all of them could be my direct ancestors. Still, I am really proud to descend from this family of patriots. I hope to learn the names of each one and how they relate to me.\n<\/p>\n<p>All these Revolutionary War ancestors populate my dad&#8217;s family tree. His people have resided in America since Colonial times, and they helped forge the new nation. We have a great heritage to celebrate on the Fourth of July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we approach Independence Day, Revolutionary War ancestors come to the minds of genealogists. I am no exception, and I have a few: Gershom Hall of Massachusetts John Day of Virginia Robert Kirkham from what is now Kentucky I also knew that I likely have a Carter ancestor who served. Genealogists have disagreed on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}